Michael Stapelberg announced the birth of Debian Code Search, a search engine for source code
within Debian.
It allows you to search all ≈ 17000 source packages,
containing 130 GiB of FLOSS source code (including Debian
packaging) with regular expressions, explained Michael.
The search engine
is already available for use.

Stefano Zacchiroli sent his
monthly
report of DPL activities for October: among other things, Stefano
reported the boost of activity in the recently created debian-cloud mailing
list. This new mailing list is dedicated to discussions of the
development and use of Debian on public and private clouds, such as for
instance the ongoing discussion about the integration of Debian
on popular clouds like Windows Azure or the Amazon Web Services Marketplace.

Neil McGovern sent an
update
on the state of the Wheezy freeze, explaining that
the Release Team is now particularly focused on managing unblock
requests (where these comply with the
freeze
policy) and removing buggy leaf packages.
Meanwhile, the Release Critical bug count is decreasing, thanks also to the
great number of Bug Squashing Parties held during recent months.
More Debian Bug Squashing Parties
are scheduled for the upcoming
weeks: you can help Debian to release sooner by participating!

Do you want to organise a Debian booth or a Debian install party?
Are you aware of other upcoming Debian-related events?
Have you delivered a Debian talk that you want to link on our
talks page?
Send an email to the Debian Events Team.

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advisories of the last weeks. If you need to be kept up to date about
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